Monthly Archives: November 2014

– Really, Is The Customer Always Right?

By Nimroth Gwetsa, 25 November 2014

Hellopeter.com and other mainstream media are littered with customer complaints about bad service from big companies. Today’s customer is more empowered than yesterday’s. Their connectivity to people across the globe and use of social media increase the power of today’s customer.

Is it the case of service levels deteriorating from previous highs, or are companies not keeping up with increasing sophistication of today’s customer? Are customers abusing their “power” by making unreasonable demands on companies?

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– How a lesson on ants reminds us of important principles on thriving in business

By Nimroth Gwetsa, 11 November 2014

141111 Ants Picture

(Image: http://www.pestworldforkids.org/pest-guide/ants)

We are told ants are among best “open-source educators” on our planet that could give life’s most valuable lesson to sluggards. A quotation from King Solomon’s writings says, “Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest.

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